Why are people so outraged by Imus but snoop dog can say whatever he wants?

Question

Maybe if he made it into a rap like:
"Oh, those rutgers gals
they ain't so swell
they remind me of a time
I used to resort to crime
Only if they weren't much
wonderful people and such
damn those napping hos!"

Answer 1

BECAUSE SNOOP DOGG WOULD BE TALKIN BOUT HIS OWN COLOR AND IMUS WASNT SO ITS KINDA CONSIDERED A LIL RACIST

Answer 2

LOL! Here's Snoop's stoned,double standard response.

Snoop recently commented on the Don Imus situation:

"It's a completely different scenario. (Rappers) are not talking about no collegiate basketball girls who have made it to the next level in education and sports. We're talking about hos that's in the 'hood that ain't doing sh*t, that's trying to get a ***** for his money. These are two separate things. First of all, we ain't no old-*** white men that sit up on MSNBC going hard on black girls. We are rappers that have these songs coming from our minds and our souls that are relevant to what we feel. I will not let them muthaf*ckas say we are in the same league as him. Kick him off the air forever."

- Snoop issued the statement through MTV.

Answer 3

Snoop Dog is Afro-American, Imus is Caucasian. Hopefully this answers your question. Double standards in play here.

Answer 4

what people are missing is that imus stupidly referred to a specific group of girls,if snoop or any other rapper referred to a particular woman such as halle berry or oprah as hos you bet there would be outrage and media coverage.as long as use it generally no one is offended because they dont think you are talking about them.

Answer 5

people are outraged because they believe in the Double Standard. They are too F****** ignorant to realize that white people arn't the only ones who can be racist! the Double Standard is exposed to the American people through the Liberal Media. this Double Standard is not just in the matters of Race, but in several other catigories. In Sexism, Caucasin Men are only Sexist because of a double standard. Homophobia is only in White men because of a Double Standard. Anti-Retard is in White men as well, because of a Racist-Sexist Double Standard. Black Rappers can say Homophobic commit all they want and not get in trouble. the Other day, I got called Homophobic because I said "Homosexual Jew" in a conversation. Carlo Mencia says "Der da der" on his show, which is insulting people with Down Syndrome. I got called Anti-Retard because was looking away from a kid with Down Syndrome, yet, I was looking from him because I was sad for him because he had Lukymia(he is now dead:.(
I have been called Sexist for saying ho in REFERENCE to a Rap song and got called sexist. i got called Racist for having the Confederate Flag on my Wallet, yet anybody who have the Mexican, Spanish, or any South American or African Country Flag on their wallet should be called RACIST, because all of those countries have or Have had Slavery in there Country.
But for saying that, all ignorat Black People, Mexicans, and people who listen to the Liberal Media, will say that I am RACIST, but i am not, and neither is IMUS!!
He just said a bad thing that he learned from Rappers

Answer 6

White people are suppose to Ree spect the bruthas and the sistas, no brutha or sista got no reason to ree spect no white dude.
Why no body dun got up tight when Andrew Young called dem smart a*s white boyz, and no body dun got in an uproar when Jesse called NY Hymietown, now did day? An brutha Al has caused at least 2 deaths with his racist lies and inciting riot.
It is the double standard, one for whites and one for blacks, one for Conservatives and one for Liberals. Go figure.

Answer 7

Because minorities carry with them the anger of their oppressed parents and grandparents. Those of european descent were not oppressed and therefore don't care if someone calls them a rascist name. Thus imus gets fired for comedy and rappers continue on, with actual rascist lyrics.

Answer 8

well it's like this....if your white your a dog! if your black it's ok..I wonder what happened to freedom of speach ? it's all bullshit ! blacks can call whites anything they wish and there's nothing said, but let a white say something to a black and your a raceist pig ! Imus was screwed real good by the whites and thats what the blacks wanted !had Imus been black and said nappy hos, we would have never heard about it....................

Answer 9

Imus tried to straddle two very different worlds - a smart-*** schock jock and a serious commentator and interviewer. I am amazed he pulled it off for as long as he did.

Answer 10

It's all about expectations.

People expected Imus to be polite, and not insult others.

People expect rappers to use provocative lyrics.